Tiny fossil teeth from Alaska are changing how scientists view mammal life and migration in the ancient Arctic.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Hidden beneath the scorched expanse of the central Libyan Sahara lies a prehistoric graveyard that was once a lush, green gateway to a continent. For decades, the origin of Africa's higher primates ...

Introduction: Does Evolution Mean “Changing Species”? In our previous article, we explored the theme of “how mutations are passed down to offspring.” Building on that, this time we will introduce the ...

aVictorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Hospital Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3000, VIC, Australia bDepartment of ...

aDepartment of Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, VIC, Australia bInfectious Diseases and Immune Defence Division, ...

This year—2021—has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human evolution research. With some research projects around the world back up and running, we wanted ...

The evolution of floral traits in animal-pollinated plants involves the interaction between flowers as signal senders and pollinators as signal receivers. Flower colors are very diverse, effect ...

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Paleoanthropologists already knew that the appearance of Paranthropus robustus in South Africa roughly coincided with the disappearance of Australopithecus and the emergence in the region of early ...

“Microevolution” is a thing. And it’s happening as we speak. A new study published in the Journal of Anatomy found that humans are increasingly being born without wisdom teeth. Researchers also found ...